Ken Tao

Ken is nationally recognized as a premier MCAT mind. He has worked with thousands of undergraduate students as a graduate teaching assistant and MCAT instructor/tutor for the Princeton Review. At Princeton Review, Ken was the only tutor certified in all subjects, was one of the highest rated MCAT tutors ever and was a teacher trainer. Additionally, Ken worked to found Magoosh's MCAT division. He has written content for dozen's of MCAT books and guides. He is now the Director of MCAT at MedSchoolCoach

MCAT Mnemonics

Ken Tao
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MCAT Mnemonics: Missense and Nonsense Mutations

Ken Tao is the MedSchoolCoach expert on MCAT, and will discuss how missense and nonsense point mutations work as a one nucleotide substitution in the DNA sequence, and also cover mnemonics for memorizing them: Stop the Nonsense, and Missense is…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Flashcards: Non-Coding RNAs

What are non-coding RNAs? Ken Tao is an MCAT expert and explains that non-coding RNAs are RNA molecules that do not code for a protein product. There are many kinds of non-coding RNAs, and in this video, we’re going to…
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MCAT Mnemonics

Ken Tao
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MCAT Mnemonics: Stages of Sleep and Brain Waves

Ken Tao is the MedSchoolCoach expert on MCAT, and will discuss the different states of consciousness our brain exhibits. And the phrase Bats Drink Blood will help you remember beta waves, alpha waves, theta waves, delta waves, and sleep spindles…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Flashcards: Melting Temperature

What is melting temperature? Ken Tao is an MCAT expert and explains that melting temperature is the temperature at which 50% of the DNA molecules and solution are denatured. He also covers two types of base pairs: GC-base pairs and…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Mnemonics: Freud Stages of Psychosexual Development

Ken Tao is the MedSchoolCoach expert on MCAT, and will discuss the five stages of Freud’s theory of psychosexual development, including oral, anal phallic, latent, and genital – and how the fact that old-aged people love grandchildren can help you…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Flashcards: Ammeters

What are ammeters? Ken Tao is an MCAT expert and explains that an ammeter is a device that is used to measure a current. If you want to measure current passing through a resistor, you need to connect an ammeter…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Mnemonics: Atomic Mass vs Atomic Weight

Ken Tao is the MedSchoolCoach expert on MCAT, and will discuss this general chemistry topic, and show you how atomic mass is the mass of an atom, whereas atomic weight is the weighted average of the naturally occurring isotopes. Full…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Flashcards: Self-Serving Bias

What is self-serving bias? Ken Tao is an MCAT expert and explains that it is altering perception of causality to preserve self-esteem, and when you attribute your own success to internal abilities and efforts, but with failures to external factors.…
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MCAT Flashcards: Radiation

What is radiation? Ken Tao is an MCAT expert and explains that it is heat transfer using electromagnetic waves. Radiation can occur with a vacuum or transparent solids, liquids, and gases. Full Transcription In this flash card video, we’re going…
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Ken Tao
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MCAT Flashcards: Polycistronic mRNA

What is Polycistronic mRNA? Ken Tao is an MCAT expert and explains that it is mRNA that codes for multiple, different proteins. This system is found in prokaryotes. Full Transcription In this flash hard video, we’re going to discuss “What…
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